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Joshua Powers
on 27 November 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 27 November 2018


The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list.

cloud-init

  • azure: retry imds polling on requests.Timeout (LP: LP:1800223)
  • azure: _poll_imds only retry on 404. Fail on Timeout (LP: #1803598)
  • logs: collect-logs ignore instance-data-sensitive.json on non-root user (LP: #1805201)
  • net: Ephemeral*Network: add connectivity check via URL
  • resizefs: Prefix discovered devpath with ‘/dev/’ when path does not exist [Igor Galić]

curtin

  • Add clear-holders to meta-simple (LP: #1786736)
  • Fix bug in is_swap_device if a device was smaller than page_size. (LP: #1803672)
  • unittest: change directory to tmpdir for testing relative files.
  • unittest: correctly use tmpdir for my.img [Joshua Powers] (LP: #1803611)
  • vmtest: add disco tests [Joshua Powers]
  • vmtests: check install log for Out of memory kernel messages and fail

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Bug Work and Triage

Ubuntu Server Packages

Below is a summary of uploads to the development and supported releases. Current status of the Debian to Ubuntu merges is tracked on the Merge-o-Matic page. For a full list of recent merges with change logs please see the Ubuntu Server report.

Proposed Uploads to the Supported Releases

Please consider testing the following by enabling proposed, checking packages for update regressions, and making sure to mark affected bugs verified as fixed.

Total: 8

Uploads Released to the Supported Releases

Total: 32

Uploads to the Development Release

Total: 43

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